xthexder
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- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 1 day ago:
I’m pretty sure Tesla has offered delivery to a home pretty much from the very beginning. I remember they had some money back guarantee when they announced it because obviously you can’t test drive if you don’t go to a dealership.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 1 day ago:
I’d be fine if there were no more car ads tbh. Sounds like another “not my problem”.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 3 days ago:
Oh neat, this is basically an electric Kei truck. The front looks a little weird with the wheels so far forward. Reminds me of a golf cart. I can’t really complain though, I’d love a small practical truck.
- Comment on Are Future Chips Doomed to Overheat? 3 days ago:
Yeah… chip designers have been battling heat output since silicon doping was invented. The main source of heat is transistors change state, since it doesn’t happen instantly and will disipate more heat when half-on, acting almost like a resistor.
The higher the clock speed, the more time a transistor spends half-on. This is why things like undervolting and underclocking reduce power usage.
Physically smaller transistors usually also means it takes less electrons to saturate the gate, so it allows lower voltages and currents to be used, while still toggling the state at the same speed. (Not to mention timing gets easier the closer the transistors are to each other) - Comment on World's fastest Flash memory developed: writes in just 400 picoseconds 4 days ago:
1 bit / 400 picoseconds is 2.5Gbit/s, or 10x slower than a 1-bit GDDR7 bus.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 4 days ago:
That’s pretty much my understanding. Most of the advancements happened in memory speeds are related to the physical proximity of the memory and more efficient transmission/decoding.
GDDR7 chips for example are packed as close as physically possible to the GPU die, and have insane read speeds of 28 Gbps/pin (and a 5090 has a 512-bit bus). Most of the limitation is the connection between GPU and RAM, so speeding up the chips internally 1000x won’t have a noticeable impact without also improving the memory bus.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 6 days ago:
Oh perfect, that means I can resell this Tesla I’ve been using and abusing for dyno testing and other stationary things as having 0 miles driven! /s
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
I’ve seen this linked before, and unfortunately the specs are very mediocre on their TVs. I don’t know how they can claim a TV is HDR when it has a meh contrast ratio, no dimming zones, and can’t even do 100% of the sRGB color space.
I don’t know how much of the price of other TVs are subsidized by ads, but these Sceptre TVs are pretty bad value when looking at panel specs alone.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
Chances are they’ll have some antenna line going to the edge of the TV. The box on the back of the TV already has a bunch of shielding over it inside. If you were to go to the trouble of opening the TV to find it, you may as well disconnect the antenna and ground it so there’s no chance of a signal.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 6 days ago:
The US specifically does spend tax money on foreign aid (or at least they used to). I have no problem with that. If you’re struggling to get by, then you should be paying effectively no taxes. If that’s not the case, then we should be fixing that, not cutting funding to things that make the world better.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 6 days ago:
If it has value to a larger community, the larger community should be able to fund its operation.
Up until very recently it seemed perfectly reasonable to fund this sort of thing with taxes, because it benefits everyone even if they’re not directly using the database. An open source developer probably isn’t going to pay to look up vulnerabilities in the open source dependencies they use, so the database being free makes software more secure on average.
What is wrong with having free public services? If someone is abusing it, block them, or charge fees like a library.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 3 weeks ago:
What the “middle class” can afford has changed quite a bit in the last few decades. Owning a home is arguably “upper class” at this point. The median US income was only $80k in 2023. Pentions are also getting increasingly rare. What used to be considered middle class is now struggling to get by. Middle class is defined by the income of the middle third of the population, not by a particular lifestyle.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 3 weeks ago:
Idk, I kind of like knowing how many layers of clothes I need to put on before I leave the house. Especially when the wind chill can make it feel like another -10°C pretty easily.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 3 weeks ago:
I agree with this, but I don’t think we’ll ever be able to have that again. AI slop is drowning out all the genuine content regardless of monetization. What’s the incentive to put hours of effort into something if nobody will ever see it because every hour another 1000 AI versions were generated and they’re all “close enough” to fool someone not paying attention?
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure Sam Altman even knows what labor is.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen pretty much the same thing happening in the programming space. In another 10 years there’s going to be a massive shortage of senior programmers who are capable of doing anything more complicated than the AI, and able to sort out the messes everyone’s creating with it.
All the companies not wanting to hire entry level programmers right now is also a big problem for those starting now. I can only hope companies realize AI is not a replacement for a human’s learning ability.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 3 weeks ago:
Better content?
Lol
Lmao even. - Comment on Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them. 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t help that the AI also has no ability to go backwards or edit code, it can only append. The best it can do is write it all out again with changes made, but even then, the chance of it losing the plot while doing that is pretty high.
- Comment on US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator 5 weeks ago:
If that company has people curating the results, then they have a reason to exist and they would have a valid copyright. If the company is just feeding customer prompts into an AI, then there’s no copyright, but also no value added vs just using stable diffusion or a hosted service yourself.
I just think any AI image that can’t be copyrighted wouldn’t be worth buying a license for anyway, since that implies no human was involved in creating it.
- Comment on US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator 5 weeks ago:
You can buy a license to use the work from the original author.
Why would you give a machine money? Just use the generation tools yourself and then you have the copyright. If there was no human input then it’s just worthless AI slop. - Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 weeks ago:
No I asked for a definition that doesn’t include property damage.
If you read what they’re saying, they made a pretty good argument for why the definition of violence can include property damage.
You can stick your head in the sand all you want, but only reading answers that match your opinion is a good way to go insane.
- Comment on Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption 5 weeks ago:
I know you meant backups can protect against ransomware, but it would be pretty funny if ZFS included a ransomware password cracker
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 1 month ago:
Based on current trends, I’d say we might get SSDs and HDDs at the same cost per GB around 2030. That’s based on prices being 12-13x higher in 2015, and around 5x higher now. SSD cost efficiencies are slowing down, but there will also be a big change in demand once the prices get close, because SSDs have other advantages people will switch as soon as it’s economical.
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 1 month ago:
If you’re storing petabytes of data sure, but when a tape drive costs $8k+ (Only price I could find that wasn’t “Call for quote”), and only storing less than 500TB, it’s cheaper to buy hard drives.
I’m not sure how important 2 types of media is these days, I personally have all my larger data on harddrives, but with multiple off-site copies and raid redundancy. Some people count “cloud” as another type of storage, but that’s just “somebody else’s harddrive”
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 1 month ago:
As a person hosting my own data storage, tape is completely out of reach. The equipment to read archival tapes would cost more than my entire system. It’s also got extremely high latency compared to spinning disks, which I can still use as live storage.
Unless you’re a huge company, spinning disks will be the way to go for bulk storage for quite a while.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
If anyone’s ever followed console emulator development, they know those undocumented commands are everywhere. There’s still people finding new ones for the N64 hardware
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 1 month ago:
Let me explain how it works when you self host like me:
- “All” starts out completely empty, there are no federated instances to find this way.
- You then have to browse communities on other instances and subscribe to them on your own instance. Only then will posts start showing up in “All”.
- Since there’s only 1 user, the list of communities in “All” is the exact same list of communities in “Subscribed”
For most people yes, you can just browse “All” unless you’re on a smaller instance, since someone on your Instance has probably already subscribed to the community you’re looking for.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 1 month ago:
I think it would show up in All still, but only posts that were synced while it was subscribed I thin?. I haven’t really checked if posts would disappear again. On the “Top Day” view I use, the “All” posts are identical to “Subscribed”
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 1 month ago:
If you’re on an instance with only 1 user, they’re the same thing. But yes, Lemmy’s a lot better if you just subscribe to what you want.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 1 month ago:
Setting up my own instance ended up being pretty good for me since it meant I had to manually subscribe to every community I want. The quality of “All” posts depends heavily on the instance you’re on.